Texas Student Win $100,000 Prize In Science Contest
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(December 8, 2008)--Medical research projects by a student from Texas and a team from North Carolina won $100,000 prizes Monday in a prestigious high school science competition.

Prizes of $10,000 to $50,000 went to five other high school students and five teams of two at the awards ceremony for the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.

Wen Chyan, a 17-year-old senior at Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science in Denton, won the individual top prize for chemistry research on combating hospital infections.

He says he developed an anti-microbial coating for such medical devices as breathing tubes and catheters.

He said such infections afflict more than 2 million hospital patients and kill more than 100,000 every year.

Sajith Wickramasekara and Andrew Guo, 17-year-old seniors at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, N.C., won the team prize for genetic research aimed at identifying new chemotherapy drugs.

The Siemens competition was begun in 1998 to recognize American's best math and science students.

The team of Raphael-Joel Lim of Indianapolis and Mark Zhang of Sugar Land won $20,000.
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Posted by: Nancy Location: central texas on Dec 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Very very intelligent young people. WAY TO GO! You are our future.
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